News on the release of 2.1

[Donsell]

Sent to 200000 phones at a time, about 8000000 mb or 7812.5 gb, yup I could see what could go wrong

That's not how they will do the update though. It will start out with a much smaller number for a couple of days, then they will start to release it to the masses. More like 10,000 phones maximum at each release time.

True, but still...

If it's a bandwidth problem, why not make it available to download now. A lot of us would download and install it then they wouldn't have to push it out to so many OTA.

 

[droidman101]

That's not how they will do the update though. It will start out with a much smaller number for a couple of days, then they will start to release it to the masses. More like 10,000 phones maximum at each release time.

True, but still...

If it's a bandwidth problem, why not make it available to download now. A lot of us would download and install it then they wouldn't have to push it out to so many OTA.

They do it for 2 reasons:
So that if there is something wrong they only have to replace 10000 phones
So that people don't mess with the 2.1 update (there are rumors going around that the droid 2.1 can't be rooted)

 

[pc747]

Yeah hope not but I think 2.1 WILL get rooted. And the way motto and vzw been tripping all over themselves over this ota I doubt it is to keep the phone from getting rooted since only less then 5% of users hack their phones. And of the 5% only 2% are hardcore hackers.

 

[Donsell]

Yeah hope not but I think 2.1 WILL get rooted. And the way motto and vzw been tripping all over themselves over this ota I doubt it is to keep the phone from getting rooted since only less then 5% of users hack their phones. And of the 5% only 2% are hardcore hackers.

And don't they have to make the rom available for development?

 

[droidman101]

Yeah hope not but I think 2.1 WILL get rooted. And the way motto and vzw been tripping all over themselves over this ota I doubt it is to keep the phone from getting rooted since only less then 5% of users hack their phones. And of the 5% only 2% are hardcore hackers.

I'm one of the 3% who just did it for ROMs

 

[Donsell]

Yeah hope not but I think 2.1 WILL get rooted. And the way motto and vzw been tripping all over themselves over this ota I doubt it is to keep the phone from getting rooted since only less then 5% of users hack their phones. And of the 5% only 2% are hardcore hackers.

Don't they have to make the rom available for development?

 

[hookbill]

Guys - Let's avoid talking about ROMs on this thread, please. Try staying on topic. I understand how this is somewhat related but we want to concentrate on what news we hear, not about how a custom ROM will be developed.

 

[droidman101]

Yeah hope not but I think 2.1 WILL get rooted. And the way motto and vzw been tripping all over themselves over this ota I doubt it is to keep the phone from getting rooted since only less then 5% of users hack their phones. And of the 5% only 2% are hardcore hackers.

And don't they have to make the rom available for development?

They might just make it into what they did to the milestone-whatever they did

 

[Mysfit]

Looking like I might go Nexus and give up on moto again.

 

[droidzilla]

I posted a update on another thread. The 2.1 update will start Monday. My neighbor and good friend works at the local corp. Office and after reading all the drama on the forum I asked him about the update he said Monday. He told me that this past Friday so march 22nd should start. He has no reason to lie to me so there you go.

 

[artc33]

has anybody on this forum actually got the official update from verizon? i mean, 10,000 the first day it's really not a whole lot you know... compare to how many people actually own it. there may even be a chance that those 10,000 that got it maight not even be in these threads/forums.

 

[///Mangler]

That page also says the update will be around 40mb.

Sent to 200000 phones at a time, about 8000000 mb or 7812.5 gb, yup I could see what could go wrong

No quite since the transmission rate is at bits and the size of the file is bytes the math is a little hard to grasp:

Ok, Lets start.

Every data in the computer world is represented by 1 or 0 (TRUE or FALSE).
Each 1 or 0 is called a bit. So, we can say that a Bit is the smallest amount of data in the digital world.
The way 12 inches make a foot and 100 centimeters make a metre.
Similarly...... 8 bits make 1 byte.
Say it in ur head...

8 bits make 1 byte
8 bits make 1 byte
8 bits make 1 byte
8 bits make 1 byte

Good.

Also .... 1000 bits = 1 kilobit

AND

1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte



All was fine till here..... bit and Byte were happy with their own identity.

Problems arised between them....... when few lazy tech geeks started abbreviating kilobyte and kilobit by KB. Mr. Byte and Miss. Bit were not cool with this new handle. There was an identity crisis. Both didnt want to giv up their names and the only way to solve this problem was to call in more tech geeks.
These geeks again turned out to be lazy. What they did was to assign small "b" to bit and capital "B" to byte (maybe because bit was younger to byte....8 times younger).After this both had their own handles.

Thereafter kilobit was addressed as kb
and kilobyte was called kB.

And also there is a covention adopted for internet speeds (the geeks didnt want any future misunderstandings)
If mentioned in Bytes we use kB/s
and in bits....... its kbps.

T

 

[hookbill]

has anybody on this forum actually got the official update from verizon? i mean, 10,000 the first day it's really not a whole lot you know... compare to how many people actually own it. there may even be a chance that those 10,000 that got it maight not even be in these threads/forums.

To the best of my knowledge nobody has received an OTA update on this. At least not the general public.

 

[droidman101]

That page also says the update will be around 40mb.

Sent to 200000 phones at a time, about 8000000 mb or 7812.5 gb, yup I could see what could go wrong

No quite since the transmission rate is at bits and the size of the file is bytes the math is a little hard to grasp:

Ok, Lets start.

Every data in the computer world is represented by 1 or 0 (TRUE or FALSE).
Each 1 or 0 is called a bit. So, we can say that a Bit is the smallest amount of data in the digital world.
The way 12 inches make a foot and 100 centimeters make a metre.
Similarly...... 8 bits make 1 byte.
Say it in ur head...

8 bits make 1 byte
8 bits make 1 byte
8 bits make 1 byte
8 bits make 1 byte

Good.

Also .... 1000 bits = 1 kilobit

AND

1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte



All was fine till here..... bit and Byte were happy with their own identity.

Problems arised between them....... when few lazy tech geeks started abbreviating kilobyte and kilobit by KB. Mr. Byte and Miss. Bit were not cool with this new handle. There was an identity crisis. Both didnt want to giv up their names and the only way to solve this problem was to call in more tech geeks.
These geeks again turned out to be lazy. What they did was to assign small "b" to bit and capital "B" to byte (maybe because bit was younger to byte....8 times younger).After this both had their own handles.

Thereafter kilobit was addressed as kb
and kilobyte was called kB.

And also there is a covention adopted for internet speeds (the geeks didnt want any future misunderstandings)
If mentioned in Bytes we use kB/s
and in bits....... its kbps.

T

Well I used an online calculator so it isn't exactly my fault

 

[droidman101]

Sent to 200000 phones at a time, about 8000000 mb or 7812.5 gb, yup I could see what could go wrong

No quite since the transmission rate is at bits and the size of the file is bytes the math is a little hard to grasp:

Ok, Lets start.

Every data in the computer world is represented by 1 or 0 (TRUE or FALSE).
Each 1 or 0 is called a bit. So, we can say that a Bit is the smallest amount of data in the digital world.
The way 12 inches make a foot and 100 centimeters make a metre.
Similarly...... 8 bits make 1 byte.
Say it in ur head...

8 bits make 1 byte
8 bits make 1 byte
8 bits make 1 byte
8 bits make 1 byte

Good.

Also .... 1000 bits = 1 kilobit

AND

1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte



All was fine till here..... bit and Byte were happy with their own identity.

Problems arised between them....... when few lazy tech geeks started abbreviating kilobyte and kilobit by KB. Mr. Byte and Miss. Bit were not cool with this new handle. There was an identity crisis. Both didnt want to giv up their names and the only way to solve this problem was to call in more tech geeks.
These geeks again turned out to be lazy. What they did was to assign small "b" to bit and capital "B" to byte (maybe because bit was younger to byte....8 times younger).After this both had their own handles.

Thereafter kilobit was addressed as kb
and kilobyte was called kB.

And also there is a covention adopted for internet speeds (the geeks didnt want any future misunderstandings)
If mentioned in Bytes we use kB/s
and in bits....... its kbps.

T

Well I used an online calculator so it isn't exactly my fault

Oh and I meant TOTAL data transfer-not the speed